How to Improve Car LED Lights
Mar 22, 2022
Automotive lighting has come a long way since the days of the incandescent light bulb. Sure, you can still choose incandescent bulbs for your headlights these days, but these types of bulbs go hand in hand with more efficient and powerful options. They include xenon and halogen bulbs, and the focus of this article, LED bulbs.
Advantages of Automotive LEDs
I won't go into too much detail about LEDs, as that alone could fill an entire article. Instead, let's focus on the benefits of these light-emitting diodes (LEDs) so we're all on the same page before we look at how to improve them in your vehicle.
LEDs offer a plethora of uses and advantages over incandescent and other light bulbs. Here's why LEDs are at the top of our list:
They have the longest lifespan, around 50,000 operating hours (500 hours for halogen lamps and 2,500 hours for xenon lamps).
They are more efficient in lighting and energy use.
Automotive LEDs don't overheat, and they're usually waterproof (for example, in headlights and taillights).
In addition to the above, automotive LEDs have unique properties that allow you to be more creative with your automotive lighting. which is:
Automotive LEDs come in a variety of colors, and some multicolored can even change color at the push of a button.
They also come in a variety of shapes, such as regular bulbs, halos, spiders, running lights, strips, and more.
LEDs are very easy to install. You can attach them almost anywhere - around your accessories, under the exterior bodywork or around the ceiling.
Do you see the pattern here? LEDs give you tons of choice and flexibility. You can customize LED lights for your car in almost any form you want. The only limit to innovation is your imagination!
An innovative approach to LED lights
As you can see, LED lights themselves are already innovative. Still, there are many creative ways to use LED lights in cars. Let's start with the most obvious places you'll use LED car lights on the outside, namely headlights, taillights, and turn signals.
Ceiling LED Lights
Let's say you do a lot of work in your car, or for whatever reason you need a lot of light in your car. Instead of installing LED lights at the bottom of the room to create mood lighting, you can easily install them on the ceiling.
There are two ways to solve this problem. Cars already have dome lights that you can replace with LED bulbs. That should brighten the existing light.
As an alternative, you can also install things like LED strips to light up the interior space in any color you like.
Headlights, taillights and turn signals
Typically, you can already find automotive LED bulbs in the headlights, taillights and turn signals of today's newer models. Many newer makes and models already use LEDs as a standard feature.
Still, if you're driving an older car, it's not difficult to buy an LED upgrade that can be retrofitted into your vehicle.
As mentioned, LED lights are brighter and more efficient, and they're waterproof and don't overheat. All of these are useful properties when you use LEDs for these general purposes.
Indoor mood lighting
Now, it's an innovative way you can use LED lighting that other types of bulbs can't - indoor mood lighting. Remember: LEDs come in a variety of colors, and some are even multicolored. Imagine being able to change the color of interior lighting according to your mood.
Switch it to blue if you're feeling cool, and red if you're feeling a little romantic. Few people have LED lights in their cars, so you'll stand out no matter what your mood is.
Typically, you can run LED lights on the lower half of the interior, such as under the glove box and around the floor.
